switch between two frequencies witth rtl_433 you can try something like this rtl_433 -f 433920000 -f 315M -H 1 but you will most likely miss some of the signals
On Friday, January 13, 2023 at 8:30:23 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > Vince, > Thanks for the reply. > > I'm using VmWare as my virtualization engine using intel architecture. The > Weewx is running under a virtualized Redhat 8 instance. > > 1) Thanks! I will look into adding a broker. So if I get this correct the > Raspberry PI will send to the broker and the Redhat 8 server running Weewx > will pick up the message from the broker? > > 2) I kind of figured that too. I see no way to switch between two > frequencies with just one SDR running. I ordered another SDR so now I'll > have two of them running. > > 3) I was thinking Purpleair too. That would probably be the easiest if > it's supported by a plugin. > > Thanks a lot. This has helped me understand were I need to go with this. > > Regards, > > Glen > > On Friday, January 13, 2023 at 10:37:10 AM UTC-8 vince wrote: > I guess I have to ask what kind of computer is running your virtual > machine, and what virtualization software are you running. We kinda need > to know your whole setup from a hardware perspective. > > For (1) FWIW - I use MQTT. I run a primary Davis VP2 station connected to > a pi4. I run a secondary Ecowitt weewx station in a Docker container on a > Ubuntu x86_64 host that publishes its data to MQTT using the MQTT > extension. The Davis weewx subscribes to the MQTT data using the > MQTTsubscribe extension. That means running a MQTT broker someplace in the > middle of course, but I do that in Docker as well. It's simpler in > practice than it sounds. > > For (2) I *think* you need separate instances and radios to listen for > each frequency, but I might be mistaken there. For the AQ stuff, it > depends on what you buy. If you go PurpleAir there's an extension for > that. If you go with a Davis Airlink, you could probably modify the > purpleair extension I'd think. The two are very similar. > > For (3) there are too many possibilities to answer there. Personally I > really like MQTT as a central collector of stuff from all kinds of sources, > and MQTTsubscribe on my primary weewx box to grab the readings I'm looking > for, unless there's an explicit extension already that I can use directly > (purpleair, for me). > > Adding a MQTT broker (use mosquitto) is very easy to do and lightweight. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d509b9ac-899c-418b-bca6-2b300f1da185n%40googlegroups.com.
